US58667A - George g - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATE PAPER-FASTENER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,667, dated October 9, 1866.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE G. W. MOR- GAN, of Washington city, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Iniprovenientin Tags or Fastenings forPaper, Documents, and other Articles, and that the following' is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, making a part of this specioation, in which Figure l represents a front or face view of a, series of sheets of paper fastened by my tag or paper-clip. Fig. 2 represents a rear or back view of the same. Fig. 3 represents the shape of the piece of metal of which the tag, clip, or fastening is made previous to its being bent into the bow orstaple form. Fig. represents the tag, clip, or fastening bent into proper shape for use, and Fig. 5 represents a perspective view ot' the tag, clip, or fastening detached and separated from the paper or other thing which it is to hold together.

Similar letters of reference, where they occur in the separate figures, denote like parts in all the drawings.

I am aware that a paper-fastener having spurs upon one plate, that pass through slots in an under plate or washer, and the spurs bent down upon the washer, has been used; but in such fastenings a punch and a hammer have to be used to put and secure them in place, and without such additional instruments to apply it the fastening is useless.

I am also aware that fastenings have been used in which short spurs have been made at the ends of the metal; but these too require a punch to form the holes, and an instrument of some kind to bend or turn them down.

I lay no claim to a paper-fastening that requires a punch, hammer, or any other contrivance of a similar` character to introduce and clinch it in the paper.

The object and purpose of my invention is to make a paper-fastenin g that will penetrate the paper to be fastened by it, cut its own way through the paper, and be capable ot' being bent down to clinch it by the thumb or finger, and thus hecapable ot' being used without a punch, hammer, or any other implement to place and clinch it 5 and myinvention consists in a bow or staple-shaped fastening, the legs or arms of which `are made pointed by obliquely and transversely inclined cuts or edges that when laid against each other shall form a bar ot a width corresponding to the bar proper of the staple, said legs or arms being long enough to overlap and lie snugly in juxtaposition to each other, thus making both the front and back of the fastening of metal throughout their length, and capable of insertion and of being clinched or bent down by the thumb and ngers or hand ofthe user, and without any implement such as has heretofore been used.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

rIhepieces or strips of which the fastening is composed are cut or punched out in the form sho wn in Fig. S-that is,-ofa rhomboidal formits two sides c aI and b b being parallel to each other, and leaving the angles at c so acute as to be sharp or pointed enough to penetrate paper of such thickness as is ordinarily eyeleted together. rIhis rhomboidal strip is then bent up int'o a bow or staple form, as shown in Fig. 4, and is then ready for use, the points c being capable of piercing, and the sides b b of cutting, their way into and through the paper,

and when they have thus been passed into or through the paper they are hentover toward each other by the thumb and finger, and when brought down into juxtaposition will snugly and closely lap by and fit. each other, so as to leave a smooth surface on the back of the paper.

Iny Fig. 1, A represents a series of sheets or other material to be fastened together. The staples B having been pushed through, their arms or shanks are bent down, as shown in Fig. 2, which represents the back of the paper or other material, said legs or shanks folding down by and snugly overlapping each other.

Fig. 5 represents one of the fastenings as it appears in the paper, the paper being removed to show it entire.

The requirements of this fastening are several: First, the blank must be of a rhomboidal forni 5y second, the shanks must be pointed enough to pierce the paper or other material without previously punching a hole for them, third, the sides of the shanks or their edges must be sharp enough to cut their way through the paper as they are pressed in by the hand T FICE.

or thumb; fourth, the ,shanks must be long enough to lap by each other when bent down; and, iifth, the fastening lnust be capable of being introduced and clinched by the thumb and finger or hand without the use of special implcments for such purpose. l

It will be perceived that by making the shanks so that they will overlap each other and lie closely together the points c, are thereby shielded, so as not to stick into anything.

The fastenings may be of various sizes. I have shown -two sizes in the drawings; but there may be more. The saine general character, however, would pervade all, and the blanks for all would be cut out of arhomboidal form, so as to make the shanks of the proper shape to accomplish the several objects above enumerated, besides that of being long enough to admit of their being readily bent over and down against the paper or other materia-l to be fastened.

The sides or edges of the fastener maybe out with a beveled or sloping form, so as to make its edge quite knife-edged, or sharp enough to readily cut their way through the paper, and the broader face may lie against the paper to give the fastener more bearingsurface on the paper, and allow the sharper edges to be shielded thereby7 and this, too, gives the fastener a neater appearance in the paper or other article fastened by it.

Having thus fullyT described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v A paper or other fastener formed out of a rhomboidal blank and bent into a bow or staple form, and capable of piercing and cutting its way into or through the paper or other material, and of being bent down or clinched by the thumb and nger or hand of the user, and overlap each other, as shown at the line b, Figs. 2 and 5, without the use of any special instrument for inserting and clinching it, all as herein described and represented.

. GEORGE G. W. MORGAN.

Titnessesz E. A. RoLLrNs, D. G. WHITMAN.

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